REVELATIONS: 2019 - 2022

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY JINWON CHANG

JUNE 9, 2022 - JULY 27, 2022

<Revelations> is the second solo exhibition by Jinwon Chang at Waterfall Gallery showcasing the works created from 2019-2022. The collection includes his <InBetween Series> that began prior to the Pandemic Crisis of 2020 and all revelatory work made in solitude during the 18 months of lockdown at his studio and his residency at the Tusen Takk Foundation in the Fall of 2021. 

Learned in his native traditions and practices of Korean painting, his materials of choice were Sumi ink and Japanese pigments (“Bunchae”) on Hanji paper. In 2004, Chang moved to New York where he immersed himself in a new freedom found in painting. Departing from the Korean traditional brush techniques, Chang began to use a roller and squeegee with acrylic and charcoal for the following three years. Afterwards, he reincorporated the Korean tradition into his new contemporary abstract process of using the brush with Sumi ink, acrylic, metallic paint, charcoal, and pigment pen on Hanji paper.

In the years prior to the <InBetween Series>, Chang was making monotone works that displayed his proficiency with Sumi ink and symbolized his confrontation with faith as it shifted from Buddhism to Christianity. In those transitory works he found himself exploring themes of connecting humanity's perpetuating ego with an ability to emanate light. 

<Revelations> is the result of the 3 hermetic years where there is an explosion of visual tonality in direct relation with the expansion of his heart, opening into a new context of eternal light and a belief into seeing from the beyond. Painted in the tranquility of his studio floor, he encounters sacred exchanges and executes intuitive transmissions.  In this state of stillness, Chang’s laborious process of creating results in a meditative state which requires slowing down and working within the regenerative nature of consciousness. What results is a direct channel of his divine encounters onto his paintings and drawings. 

Chang describes his unintentional results as being the divine disclosure found in the form of light.